Narragansett Native Americans with Roger Williams.
The Narragansett Indians are the descendants of the aboriginal people of the State of Rhode Island. Archaeological evidence and the oral history of the Narragansett People establish their existence in this region more than 30,000 years ago. This history transcends all written documentaries and is present upon the faces of rock formations and through oral history. The first documented contact with the Indians of Rhode Island took place in 1524 when Giovanni de Verrazano visited Narragansett Bay and described a large Indian population, living by agriculture and hunting, and organized under powerful "kings."
The Tribe and its members were considered warriors within the region. The Narragansett customarily offered protection to smaller tribes in the area. Certain Nipmuck bands, the Niantics, Wampanoag, and Manisseans all paid tribute to the Narragansett tribe. These tribes all resided in areas of Rhode Island at the time of the first European settlement around 1635. In 1636, Roger Williams acquired land use rights to Providence from the Narragansett Sachems. The colonists quickly came into contact with both the Narragansett and Niantic Sachems.
Historically, tribal members had two homes; a winter home and a summer home. The winter home would be called a long house in which up to 20 families would live in over the cold winter months. During the summer, the tribe would move to the shore and construct Wigwams or Wetus, temporary shelter made of bark on the outside and woven mats on the inside. They would dig out large canoes from trees which could hold up to forty men.
In 1675, the Narragansett allied themselves with King Philip and the Wampanoag Sachem, to support the Wampanoag Tribe's efforts to reclaim land in Massachusetts. In the Great Swamp Massacre, a military force of Puritans from Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, and Connecticut massacred a group of Narragansett, mostly women, children, and elderly men living at an Indian winter camp in the Great Swamp located in present day South Kingstown. Following the massacre, many of the remaining Narragansett retreated deep into the forest and swamp lands in the southern area of the State. (Much of this area now makes up today's Reservation).
Many who refused to be subjected to the authority of the United Colonies left the area or were hunted down and killed. Some were sold into slavery in the Caribbean, others migrated to upstate New York and many went to Brotherton, Wisconsin.*
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narragansett_people
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narragansett_people
Why Feb 29th is "0.0.Hunab Ku" on The Galactic Calendar ~
The Galactic Calendar has an intricate system of mathematical harmonies that are generated by the meshing of the 365-day solar year and the 260-day galactic spin cycle, creating a 52-year solar-galactic cycle. This cycle reveals how the 4th-dimensional cycles of time overlay upon our 3rd-dimensional journey in exquisite harmonic patterns of meaning. With this sacred map of time we can explore the daily progression of what Dr. José Argüelles calls the "Synchronic Order," and come to understand the interconnectedness of our lives with wholly new significance.
The precision of this 52-year pattern does not allow for the arbitrary insertion of Feb 29th as a leap year solution. The notion of a 366-day year is entirely inconsistent with the galactic architecture of this 52-year pattern. As Argüelles explains, "The 13 Moon/28-day Galactic calendar is a perfection of harmony that reflects and is synchronized by the synchronic order. This is a purely fourth-dimensional order of reality, and its perfection of chromatics and harmonics establish cycles of time that are in absolute harmony with the higher dimensional order of reality. For this reason, within its own system, the 13 Moon/28-day calendar does not recognize the 29th day of February, for it would disturb and place out of synchronization this calendar with the higher dimensional cycles.
"However it does account for this day as 0.0.Hunab Ku. This day occurs every four years precisely between the 22nd and 23rd days of the Galactic Moon, and can be viewed as an extra day out of time which is no day of the week, moon or the galactic spin, hence 0.0.Hunab Ku. This is an especially spiritual day since Hunab Ku refers both to the center of the Galaxy and to the Supreme Creator, One Giver of Movement and Measure...."